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This San Francisco dump pays artists to play with its trash
The company picks artists who use recycled materials in their art, gives them a monthly stipend, a studio space -- naturally, it's a shipping container -- and "scavenging privileges".
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Quebec oil-train tragedy triggered oil spill that threatens water supplies
As emergency crews search for the dead in Lac-Mégantic, environmental officials are confronted with a 60-mile slick of crude on the Chaudière River.
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French are pissed we banned their “filthy, putrid” cheese
Someone please let this adorable cheese out of jail!
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This boat circled the globe on sun power alone
Sure, this boat only averaged about 6 mph. But it's totally solar-powered!
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Climate change is making private heat islands for people of color
New research suggests that people of color are at a higher risk for extreme heat events.
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Spooky sculptures put illegally felled trees back together again
These sculptures are deliberately uncanny, because they're sort of like undead neck-bolted Frankenstein's Monster trees.
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Japan’s utilities clamor to fire up nuke plants
Two years after the Fukushima meltdown, Japan's government is moving toward allowing nuclear reactors to restart. Never mind that many Japanese citizens think that's a terrible idea.
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This is an unusually good bit of penguin slapstick
We're just going to watch this 3,000 times in a row.
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Colorado’s oil and gas boom is polluting the state’s air
Drillers pump 600 tons of air pollution over Colorado every day, and three-quarters of the state's air pollution enforcement cases are linked to drilling.
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The Southwest’s forests may never recover from megafires
"Abnormal" fire risks have become the new normal in the parched Southwest.
